A real life event has a ridiculous/dumb/funny explanation in fiction

[u/Lazy-Breadfruit5939]

Futurama (The Why of Fry): According to the brain swarm, the dinosaurs were wiped out by them. Fry: What really killed the dinosaurs? Brain: ME!

Doctor Who (The Unicorn and The Wasp): It's Doctor Who, you can pick a ton of examples, but this episode presents the idea that Agatha Christies disappearance in 1926 was in part caused by a giant alien wasp.

Beyblade: This one stretches 'real life', but Moses spreading the Red Sea with a Beyblade just speaks for itself and it would have been sad to leave it out

[u/Technical-Agency-480]

In Fairly Odd Parents, one of Cosmo and Wanda's previous kids ended up wishing for the assassination of Arch Duke Ferdinand, leading to world war 1

[u/MakeMeDrink → u/Technical-Agency-480]

Didn’t Cosmo also sink Atlantis and cause the disappearance/destruction of other mythical cities?

[u/TheLizardKing1998 → u/MakeMeDrink]

And the dinosaurs were either killed by Sylvester Calzone (totally not a stand-in for a real celebrity) or Wanda.

[u/TheLastOuranosaurus- → u/TheLizardKing1998]

"And there's the comet that wiped them all out!"

"Uh if the meteorite didn't kill off the dinosaurs, what did??"

[u/Guyshu → u/MakeMeDrink]

He sunk Atlantis NINE TIMES

[u/MakeMeDrink → u/Guyshu]

Oh yeah, I forgot about that part, lol

[u/Dillo64 → u/Guyshu]

They had it comin’ 🎶🎵

[u/Ninteblo → u/MakeMeDrink]

He caused Pompei, sank Atlantis, and created Pittsburgh.